Introduction to Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies is a dynamic, rapidly evolving discipline embracing cinema and television studies, as well as the full range of established and emerging issues in new media studies. Cinema Studies also offer a joint undergraduate teaching program with Cultural Studies.
Subjects offered each year in the program reflect the theoretical and interpretive approaches to cinema, television and new entertainment technologies that are essential to assist students in applying this knowledge in practical and professional frameworks beyond their degree. Subjects and topic areas include:
- film history
- Australian cinema
- Hollywood cinema
- European cinema
- art house and experimental cinema
- documentary and ethnographic film-making
- genre studies
- television studies
- cross-media forms such as comic books, computer games and theme park attractions
- Cinema-based theories of entertainment, spectatorship, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender, sexuality, class and ideology.
Cinema Studies subjects are taught at the Parkville campus and the program also offers a travel subject taught on-site in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and San Francisco.
Cinema Studies offers a broad-based postgraduate program with research expertise in the areas of film history and theory from the silent period to the present; feminist and psychoanalytical theory; Australian and other national cinemas of Europe and Asia. The postgraduate program is underpinned by historical, theoretical and interpretive approaches to cinema, television and multimedia that will assist graduates in the application of this knowledge in practical and professional frameworks.
Cinema Studies is affiliated with Australia's major film culture institutions including:
Cinema Studies staff are distinguished and high-profile scholars in the field. They are highly active in the media and have a long history of participation in arts and film cultures bodies such as:
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Melbourne International Film Festival
- National Gallery of Victoria
The program also contributes nationally and internationally renowned speakers to the School of Culture and Communication's public lecture series.